Recent Articles

• Metadata Toolkit: Mediating the IP Network in Support of Fresh Security Apps — interview with Bob Noel — Mediating the IP network has always been an issue due to its sheer complexity.  But now a clever software supplier uses metadata to abstract network events and economically enable the development of near-real-time security apps.
• Stealth Test Calls: A Powerful New Weapon in the Fight to Block SIM Box Bypass — interview with Kenneth Mouton — SIM Box bypass is a highly challenging interconnect fraud to detect.  An expert explains the benefits of a new hybrid test call and CDR profiling systems.  Also discussed is a major anti-fraud breakthrough: stealth test calls.
• Telecoms Need to Step Up their Game in Subscription Fraud and Customer Onboarding Control — interview with Luke Taylor — Know your customer and subscription fraud systems critical investments for telcos today.  An expert discusses: delivering first-class onboarding controls; selecting risk mitigation priorities; and integrating back end systems.
• WeDo Offers Fraud Detection via a New Cloud Platform — interview with Thomas Steagall — A leading vendor introduces a cloud fraud control solution to serve the low cost, easy-to-deploy-learn-and-support requirements of many new operators, OTTs, and MVNOs.
• Bypass Fraud Evolves: New Threats from Outgoing SIM Box Bypass & Spikes in CLI-Tampering — interview with Philippe Orsini — An overview of explosive fraud threats like outgoing SIM box call dumping and CLI spoofing.  What roles do human experts play and technical platforms in battling SIM box via electronic warfare?
• A Herculean Task: Battling Fraud in an Increasingly Complex Comms World — interview with Michalis Mavis — A fraud control expert walks through some interesting cases, gives us his advice on FMS software, and offers four key lessons on the path to fraud management excellence.
• The Race to Develop Cross-Industry “Know Your Customer” Biometrics to Verify Identity Remotely — interview with Shankar Palaniandy — ground-breaking cross-industry ID verification software. India’s 1 billion-people-strong national identity database could become the model for cross-industry ID verification worldwide.  An expert trialing visual biometrics at several Indian banks explains the latest in Know Your Customer technology.  
• The Early Warning Power of IPRN Test Call Detection in Blocking IRSF Fraud — interview with Colin Yates — Detecting the test calls made to International Premium Rate Numbers (IPRN) is helping telcos block IRSF fraud.  An expert explains fraudster methods and the value of IPRN databases.
• How Regulators can Lead the Fight Against International Bypass Fraud — by Dan Baker — As a regulator in a country infected by SIM box fraud, what can you do to improve the situation?  A white paper explains the steps you can and should you take — at the national government level — to better protect your country’s tax revenue, quality of communications, and national infrastructure.
• Global Interconnect Specialist iconectiv Ramps up its Fraud & Identity Solutions in Bypass & A2P Messaging — interview with Bojan Andelkovic — Today’s IRSF, SIM Box, and SMS A2P frauds call for coordinated and broadly conceived FM programs.  A leading interconnect specialist explains the benefits of its managed services approach.
• A Real-Time Packet-Based Solution to Detect & Block any Hijacked OTT Call — interview with Paul David & Andy Gent — Two veterans of the SIM Box call bypass wars describe a new solution for stopping OTT bypass.  Get vital intel on the call hijacking of VIBER and other OTTs.  Learn why the revenue threat to roaming is as serious as it is to international calls.
• Calculating the Fraud Risks of the Digital Era — by Dror Eshet — Digital and mobile technology are an integral part of our daily lives.  Not only is the technology evolving at a frantic rate, but a leading fraud expert explains how fraudsters now team with one another to commit their crimes and magnify the risks to users, companies, and global infrastructure.
• BT Americas Security Chief: Security is No Longer Just an IT Problem, It’s a Major Board Room Concern — interview with Jason Cook — A global expert on security explains six key motivators that are driving enterprises and telecoms to strengthen their security protection.
• Multi-Vendor SDN/NFV Services: How Integrators Collaborate to Drive the Next Era of Network Automation — interview with Bartosz Michalik & Marcin Paszkiewicz — What technical steps are required to orchestrate NFV/SDN and legacy multi-vendor networks?  This tutorial explains the role of key development standards like OpenDaylight and  integration challenges in the new era.
• Premiere Experts Set to Speak at Summer RAG Conference in London, July 7th and 8th — by Dan Baker — The Risk and Assurance Group (RAG) has announced that its 2016 summer conference will expand into a two-day event and feature many premiere experts.